Sunday, February 17, 2013

Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science | Qi Gong?? Healing Art ...

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www.ted.com Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they?re right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world?s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the ?Sixth Sense? wearable tech, and ?Lost? producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http

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